Andy Lutomirski a582c540ac x86/vdso: Use RDPID in preference to LSL when available
RDPID is a new instruction that reads MSR_TSC_AUX quickly.  This
should be considerably faster than reading the GDT.  Add a
cpufeature for it and use it from __vdso_getcpu() when available.

Tested-by: Megha Dey <megha.dey@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Brian Gerst <brgerst@gmail.com>
Cc: Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4f6c3a22012d10f1c65b9ca15800e01b42c7d39d.1479320367.git.luto@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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